Re: [RFC PATCH 4/8] misc: emif: add basic infrastructure for EMIFdriver

From: Aneesh V
Date: Fri Feb 24 2012 - 06:10:49 EST


On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:00 PM, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
Hi Aneesh,


[...]

+struct emif_data {
+ u8 duplicate;
+ u8 temperature_level;
+ u32 irq;
+ spinlock_t lock; /* lock to prevent races */

Nit: That comment is useless, since you already have the kerneldoc comment before.

Now I remember why I did that. Without that comment checkpatch gives
this "check".

CHECK: spinlock_t definition without comment
#124: FILE: drivers/misc/emif.c:54:
+ spinlock_t lock;

br,
Aneesh
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